1 00:00:15,422 --> 00:00:29,702 Speaker 1: Pushkin last time on Where's Dear? 2 00:00:30,662 --> 00:00:33,822 Speaker 2: I could hear her phone and ringing upstairs that she 3 00:00:34,102 --> 00:00:35,982 Speaker 2: was not anywhere in the house. 4 00:00:36,382 --> 00:00:38,742 Speaker 3: Julie and I have spent hours and hours and hours 5 00:00:38,862 --> 00:00:41,222 Speaker 3: going over every scenario that it could possibly be, and 6 00:00:41,542 --> 00:00:43,022 Speaker 3: we came down to the same thing. 7 00:00:43,342 --> 00:00:46,142 Speaker 2: She did not leave of her own a court. You know, obviously, 8 00:00:46,262 --> 00:00:50,262 Speaker 2: when you're the last person, this always become the suspect. 9 00:00:54,862 --> 00:00:58,902 Speaker 1: Two days after Dea disappeared, Keith Harper, the man who 10 00:00:58,942 --> 00:01:03,102 Speaker 1: says he was DIA's fiance, drives to New Mexico, and 11 00:01:03,142 --> 00:01:07,102 Speaker 1: within a week police in San Juan County obtain a 12 00:01:07,182 --> 00:01:11,022 Speaker 1: warrant and search a lot dodge fenced in storage building 13 00:01:11,222 --> 00:01:17,782 Speaker 1: belonging to Harper. The cops also search Harper's motor home 14 00:01:18,382 --> 00:01:20,662 Speaker 1: on the grounds that it's linked to a missing person 15 00:01:21,142 --> 00:01:25,422 Speaker 1: or possible homicide. They remove a section of the driver's 16 00:01:25,462 --> 00:01:30,862 Speaker 1: seat and sees it as evidence. Several weeks later, Harper 17 00:01:30,942 --> 00:01:34,182 Speaker 1: sues the police to get his RV back. He wins, 18 00:01:34,582 --> 00:01:36,902 Speaker 1: and nothing else comes of it as far as I know. 19 00:01:38,502 --> 00:01:43,062 Speaker 1: Harper eventually returns to the ranch where he and Diana Fedder, 20 00:01:43,222 --> 00:01:46,982 Speaker 1: DEA's close friend from Idlewild, have a showdown with DEA's 21 00:01:46,982 --> 00:01:51,862 Speaker 1: two kids, Clinton and Krossara. I talked to Clinton about 22 00:01:51,862 --> 00:01:55,142 Speaker 1: what went down that day. He's this very tall guy 23 00:01:55,262 --> 00:01:58,542 Speaker 1: with dark cropped hair, green eyes, and a bit of 24 00:01:58,542 --> 00:02:02,462 Speaker 1: a nervous energy about him, although perhaps that's to be 25 00:02:02,502 --> 00:02:04,542 Speaker 1: expected under the circumstances. 26 00:02:04,982 --> 00:02:08,622 Speaker 4: I feel that I have to speak for my mother 27 00:02:09,142 --> 00:02:12,502 Speaker 4: because I don't think anybody else really can. 28 00:02:15,942 --> 00:02:19,742 Speaker 1: Around a month after DEA's disappearance, Clinton says that he 29 00:02:19,822 --> 00:02:22,982 Speaker 1: and his sister drove up to Beneatha Vista Ranch with 30 00:02:23,062 --> 00:02:26,942 Speaker 1: their attorney to take DEA's truck. They didn't want Harper 31 00:02:27,062 --> 00:02:30,582 Speaker 1: having it. But that's when Diana stops them in their tracks. 32 00:02:31,062 --> 00:02:33,862 Speaker 1: She hands them a piece of paper, a legal document 33 00:02:34,302 --> 00:02:36,022 Speaker 1: that has Deer's signature on it. 34 00:02:36,822 --> 00:02:38,462 Speaker 5: She handed us the power of attorney. 35 00:02:38,462 --> 00:02:41,862 Speaker 4: And the power of attorney is shockingly broad if you 36 00:02:41,982 --> 00:02:45,502 Speaker 4: read it. I mean it gives them total control over it, 37 00:02:45,542 --> 00:02:48,502 Speaker 4: whether or not to sell or buy anything. I think 38 00:02:48,502 --> 00:02:51,662 Speaker 4: it even says even while she's alive. 39 00:02:52,702 --> 00:02:57,022 Speaker 1: In other words, DEA's children can't take the truck, and 40 00:02:57,062 --> 00:02:59,022 Speaker 1: they also have to turn over their set of house 41 00:02:59,102 --> 00:03:02,982 Speaker 1: keys to Diana and Harper, the keys to DEA's kingdom. 42 00:03:03,702 --> 00:03:06,422 Speaker 1: DEA's children had only met Harper and Diana a few 43 00:03:06,422 --> 00:03:10,382 Speaker 1: weeks before this encounter. Clinton told me he also had 44 00:03:10,462 --> 00:03:14,142 Speaker 1: no idea that Harper was engaged to their mother. How 45 00:03:14,142 --> 00:03:14,862 Speaker 1: did that feel? 46 00:03:16,742 --> 00:03:19,222 Speaker 5: How did that feel? Yeah? 47 00:03:19,982 --> 00:03:24,502 Speaker 4: Strange, I mean just weird that people I didn't know 48 00:03:24,582 --> 00:03:27,382 Speaker 4: were in our family home that we spent millions of 49 00:03:27,382 --> 00:03:30,582 Speaker 4: dollars building and exerted a lot of effort on designing. 50 00:03:31,142 --> 00:03:33,262 Speaker 4: And I had gone up there ever since I was 51 00:03:33,262 --> 00:03:36,382 Speaker 4: a little kid, and my mother always said, you know, 52 00:03:36,462 --> 00:03:39,822 Speaker 4: she was building it for Grassara and I. And now suddenly, 53 00:03:40,422 --> 00:03:42,942 Speaker 4: you know, other people who I suspect had murdered her 54 00:03:43,662 --> 00:03:44,462 Speaker 4: are moving in. 55 00:03:45,302 --> 00:03:48,742 Speaker 1: Clinton is suspicious of Harper and Diana right off the bat, 56 00:03:49,022 --> 00:03:51,422 Speaker 1: even though he has no evidence that proves they had 57 00:03:51,502 --> 00:03:56,382 Speaker 1: anything to do with DEA's disappearance. This confrontation sets up 58 00:03:56,422 --> 00:04:00,502 Speaker 1: something that will continue to snowball for years, a power 59 00:04:00,542 --> 00:04:04,342 Speaker 1: struggle that will become so big it will consume Clinton 60 00:04:04,422 --> 00:04:09,422 Speaker 1: and Harper's lives. Clinton versus Harper battling it out over 61 00:04:09,542 --> 00:04:17,342 Speaker 1: DEA's estate. The more I've learned about DEA's life, the 62 00:04:17,342 --> 00:04:20,702 Speaker 1: more I've wondered, how did someone who had a family 63 00:04:21,022 --> 00:04:25,222 Speaker 1: and friends and a supposed fiancee end up with all 64 00:04:25,262 --> 00:04:28,862 Speaker 1: these people fighting over her estate. How did this glamorous 65 00:04:28,902 --> 00:04:32,662 Speaker 1: blonde go from living in her mountain paradise in a 66 00:04:32,702 --> 00:04:38,382 Speaker 1: town called Idlewild to completely disappearing. It's been hard to 67 00:04:38,502 --> 00:04:41,822 Speaker 1: understand Dea. I've had to craft a picture of her 68 00:04:42,342 --> 00:04:45,382 Speaker 1: through the people she left behind, even if I'm not 69 00:04:45,462 --> 00:04:47,862 Speaker 1: quite sure I can totally believe what they're telling me. 70 00:04:48,622 --> 00:04:50,102 Speaker 1: It can be a bit of a mind fuck, to 71 00:04:50,182 --> 00:04:53,542 Speaker 1: be honest, it feels like I'm looking at Dea through 72 00:04:53,542 --> 00:04:58,262 Speaker 1: a prism or a warped pair of glasses that distort everything. 73 00:05:01,062 --> 00:05:04,182 Speaker 1: But in this episode, I'm going to tell you about 74 00:05:04,262 --> 00:05:07,062 Speaker 1: how Dea ended up on a huge ranch in the 75 00:05:07,102 --> 00:05:11,022 Speaker 1: mountains at odds with her family living with a man 76 00:05:11,262 --> 00:05:17,462 Speaker 1: who says they were secretly engaged. I'm Lucy Sheriff, and 77 00:05:17,502 --> 00:05:22,822 Speaker 1: this is Where's Dea? Episode two? She built her own prison. 78 00:05:33,422 --> 00:05:36,462 Speaker 1: It took me a while to track Peggy ken Schlow down, 79 00:05:36,782 --> 00:05:41,262 Speaker 1: DEA's younger sister, but I did and eventually met her 80 00:05:41,382 --> 00:05:46,062 Speaker 1: at her studio apartment in the San Diego suburbs. Right away, 81 00:05:46,342 --> 00:05:49,262 Speaker 1: Peggy seemed like the key to unlocking who Dea used 82 00:05:49,302 --> 00:05:52,622 Speaker 1: to be before she got caught up with the idlewild crowd. 83 00:05:58,142 --> 00:06:00,982 Speaker 6: She called me piggy Puff, and I called her I 84 00:06:01,022 --> 00:06:03,662 Speaker 6: think my mom told me I couldn't say Lydia, so 85 00:06:03,742 --> 00:06:06,022 Speaker 6: I called her Gia, and that's how she got Dia. 86 00:06:06,982 --> 00:06:09,542 Speaker 1: Peggy told me that she and Dea grew up with 87 00:06:09,582 --> 00:06:12,302 Speaker 1: their older brother Jim, in a nice house with an 88 00:06:12,342 --> 00:06:15,142 Speaker 1: avocado orchard on a patch of land in La Mesa, 89 00:06:15,862 --> 00:06:20,142 Speaker 1: a small inland community east of San Diego. Even though 90 00:06:20,182 --> 00:06:23,142 Speaker 1: Dea was the middle child, she was the one given 91 00:06:23,182 --> 00:06:23,942 Speaker 1: special treatment. 92 00:06:24,542 --> 00:06:27,302 Speaker 6: I remember my dad bought us all pentos, the cars, 93 00:06:28,022 --> 00:06:30,742 Speaker 6: and my brother and I got these like stripped down pinhos, 94 00:06:30,782 --> 00:06:34,542 Speaker 6: but Dia got a two toned Pinto that had like 95 00:06:35,062 --> 00:06:38,662 Speaker 6: fur like carpet in it. And she even had a radio, 96 00:06:38,982 --> 00:06:41,022 Speaker 6: and so she kind of got, you know, she got 97 00:06:41,022 --> 00:06:42,142 Speaker 6: the perks for being. 98 00:06:41,982 --> 00:06:42,582 Speaker 2: A middle child. 99 00:06:42,822 --> 00:06:45,102 Speaker 6: And she always said, I'm the middle child. I'm gonna 100 00:06:45,142 --> 00:06:47,502 Speaker 6: meat in the sandwich, that's situitious. 101 00:06:48,022 --> 00:06:52,942 Speaker 1: The family had chickens and dogs, and Dia loved her animals. 102 00:06:53,422 --> 00:06:57,862 Speaker 1: Peggy remembers one intense moment in particular that happened after 103 00:06:57,942 --> 00:06:58,942 Speaker 1: DIA's dog died. 104 00:06:59,462 --> 00:07:02,102 Speaker 6: She had a dog one time named Coco that got 105 00:07:02,182 --> 00:07:04,142 Speaker 6: kipped by a truck and she went up there and 106 00:07:04,342 --> 00:07:07,342 Speaker 6: scraped up its blood and stuff and second and baggy, 107 00:07:07,422 --> 00:07:09,822 Speaker 6: and we'll never forget it was a weird that she 108 00:07:10,102 --> 00:07:11,022 Speaker 6: loved her annals. 109 00:07:12,302 --> 00:07:17,382 Speaker 1: Along the way, something changed. Dea became interested in makeup 110 00:07:17,462 --> 00:07:20,942 Speaker 1: and fashion and fancy things. In getting out of Le 111 00:07:21,102 --> 00:07:24,102 Speaker 1: Masa and leaving that version of Dea behind. 112 00:07:24,782 --> 00:07:29,742 Speaker 6: She was funny, she was hilarious. But didn't she get 113 00:07:29,822 --> 00:07:35,262 Speaker 6: this money thing where it was everything everything to her 114 00:07:35,542 --> 00:07:38,782 Speaker 6: and it just created a monster. 115 00:07:39,742 --> 00:07:44,382 Speaker 1: Peggy is honest about her older sister, unflinchingly honest, to 116 00:07:44,422 --> 00:07:47,222 Speaker 1: the point where I felt almost uncomfortable talking this way 117 00:07:47,342 --> 00:07:49,702 Speaker 1: about a woman who's not here to speak for herself. 118 00:07:50,342 --> 00:07:53,062 Speaker 6: You know, she enjoyed money, she wanted more. 119 00:07:54,342 --> 00:07:58,222 Speaker 1: Enter clem Abrams, a much older real estate developer who 120 00:07:58,262 --> 00:08:01,102 Speaker 1: was from the wealthy enclave of La Joya, San Diego. 121 00:08:02,062 --> 00:08:04,982 Speaker 1: Dea found him in a listing of Who's Who, basically 122 00:08:04,982 --> 00:08:07,622 Speaker 1: this old school way of dating where young single ladies 123 00:08:07,622 --> 00:08:09,582 Speaker 1: could find local eligible backs. 124 00:08:10,782 --> 00:08:13,622 Speaker 6: We snagged him. D and I did this together back 125 00:08:13,662 --> 00:08:15,702 Speaker 6: in Jim's old bedroom. I'll never forget doing this. 126 00:08:16,342 --> 00:08:17,102 Speaker 2: It's called Who's Who. 127 00:08:17,142 --> 00:08:19,342 Speaker 6: I'm San Diego and I called and I would like 128 00:08:19,422 --> 00:08:21,422 Speaker 6: flirt with him, and then I'd give the phone to her. 129 00:08:21,662 --> 00:08:23,902 Speaker 6: She would flirt with him and it was hilarious. 130 00:08:24,142 --> 00:08:28,262 Speaker 1: And then they met. Clem was old money. Dea had 131 00:08:28,302 --> 00:08:29,062 Speaker 1: struck gold. 132 00:08:29,822 --> 00:08:33,382 Speaker 6: Everybody loved Clem. Clem was really down to earth. Comb 133 00:08:33,462 --> 00:08:37,662 Speaker 6: used to drive around an old El Camino. No last, no, no, 134 00:08:38,182 --> 00:08:39,022 Speaker 6: you didn't have here. 135 00:08:39,142 --> 00:08:42,582 Speaker 1: They have to be. In nineteen eighty four, Deer got 136 00:08:42,622 --> 00:08:45,942 Speaker 1: pregnant with Clinton, and so Clem and Dea, who was 137 00:08:45,982 --> 00:08:48,742 Speaker 1: four months pregnant, tied the knot in front of a 138 00:08:48,862 --> 00:08:53,262 Speaker 1: hundred guests with a reception at SeaWorld, although not before 139 00:08:53,302 --> 00:08:58,422 Speaker 1: signing a prenup on Clem's insistence. Deer became this socialite 140 00:08:58,462 --> 00:09:01,422 Speaker 1: in San Diego, and her siblings saw her less and 141 00:09:01,542 --> 00:09:05,102 Speaker 1: less until one day Peggy and her brother Jim told 142 00:09:05,142 --> 00:09:08,622 Speaker 1: me she just cut them out, the only ties she 143 00:09:08,662 --> 00:09:10,942 Speaker 1: had left to that life in La Mesa. 144 00:09:11,582 --> 00:09:16,102 Speaker 6: I think what she felt put off by us. We 145 00:09:16,382 --> 00:09:19,822 Speaker 6: liked simple things. She wanted grand things. 146 00:09:19,742 --> 00:09:22,262 Speaker 1: And she had her own family by that point, Clem, 147 00:09:22,422 --> 00:09:26,982 Speaker 1: the husband, and their two children, Clinton and Chrissara. Clinton 148 00:09:27,022 --> 00:09:29,022 Speaker 1: says he was incredibly close to his mum. 149 00:09:29,742 --> 00:09:32,062 Speaker 4: Oh I was a child we were best friends. We 150 00:09:32,142 --> 00:09:35,622 Speaker 4: would go shopping all the time. She loved the shop, 151 00:09:35,862 --> 00:09:38,142 Speaker 4: and she'd take me with her and I'd help her 152 00:09:38,142 --> 00:09:41,182 Speaker 4: pick out clothes and such, and she thought I had 153 00:09:41,182 --> 00:09:45,182 Speaker 4: a good fashion sense for a male. 154 00:09:46,422 --> 00:09:50,142 Speaker 1: When Clinton was around thirteen, Dea lef La Joya. I 155 00:09:50,222 --> 00:09:54,902 Speaker 1: moved to Idlewild to her Benita Vista ranch without Clem, 156 00:09:55,422 --> 00:10:00,142 Speaker 1: though he still supported her financially, and over time cracks 157 00:10:00,182 --> 00:10:03,422 Speaker 1: began to show in Clinton and DEA's relationship. 158 00:10:04,702 --> 00:10:08,342 Speaker 4: It just wasn't a day to day interaction really, and 159 00:10:08,422 --> 00:10:12,182 Speaker 4: so it was, you know, more sporadic. I talked to 160 00:10:12,182 --> 00:10:14,142 Speaker 4: her every couple of weeks or see here, you know, 161 00:10:14,222 --> 00:10:17,702 Speaker 4: every month or two months or so, that kind of thing. 162 00:10:18,622 --> 00:10:21,622 Speaker 1: According to her friends, Dea felt the kids didn't make 163 00:10:21,662 --> 00:10:24,742 Speaker 1: an effort to see her, although Clinton says that wasn't 164 00:10:24,782 --> 00:10:29,782 Speaker 1: the case. Regardless, Clinton and DEA's relationship did come under 165 00:10:29,782 --> 00:10:32,742 Speaker 1: strain when Clem's health began deteriorating. 166 00:10:33,542 --> 00:10:38,382 Speaker 4: I didn't feel like she shared the same degree of concern. 167 00:10:39,502 --> 00:10:42,862 Speaker 4: At the time, I thought everybody was being callous because 168 00:10:42,862 --> 00:10:45,102 Speaker 4: I was so sensitive to him dying. 169 00:10:47,302 --> 00:10:51,582 Speaker 1: Clinton also started to take over Clem's businesses, including the 170 00:10:51,702 --> 00:10:55,542 Speaker 1: upkeep of Deer's properties in Idlewild, and he and Dea 171 00:10:55,702 --> 00:10:59,462 Speaker 1: disagreed over how to manage them. Clinton is a real 172 00:10:59,542 --> 00:11:03,582 Speaker 1: estate guy. He loves land, he loves property. He prides 173 00:11:03,622 --> 00:11:07,302 Speaker 1: himself on having good business sense, and he was pushing 174 00:11:07,342 --> 00:11:09,542 Speaker 1: Dear to get rid of one of her proper tees. 175 00:11:10,702 --> 00:11:13,822 Speaker 4: It wasn't really a point of contention, but the interest 176 00:11:13,862 --> 00:11:17,782 Speaker 4: rate on it was just horrific, and nobody living there. 177 00:11:17,822 --> 00:11:19,542 Speaker 5: It was a large monthly nut to cover. 178 00:11:20,662 --> 00:11:23,462 Speaker 1: I asked Clinton's sister Krisara, to do an interview too 179 00:11:23,862 --> 00:11:26,782 Speaker 1: several times, but I didn't hear back from her or 180 00:11:26,822 --> 00:11:29,542 Speaker 1: her lawyer, so I can't tell you much more about 181 00:11:29,542 --> 00:11:35,022 Speaker 1: their relationship. Still, Clinton says that disagreements were never that serious, 182 00:11:35,342 --> 00:11:37,742 Speaker 1: and it was his mother who started pulling away, not 183 00:11:37,902 --> 00:11:40,822 Speaker 1: him or his sister, and he doesn't know why. 184 00:11:41,462 --> 00:11:43,982 Speaker 4: From the outside looking in, she had the perfect life. 185 00:11:44,222 --> 00:11:47,782 Speaker 4: I mean, the best husband. I mean, my dad was 186 00:11:47,862 --> 00:11:51,302 Speaker 4: just so gentle and giving, gave her everything she ever wanted. 187 00:11:51,902 --> 00:11:55,862 Speaker 4: You know, she had multiple properties, horses, all the jewelry 188 00:11:55,862 --> 00:11:56,862 Speaker 4: that she could ever want. 189 00:11:57,262 --> 00:12:00,502 Speaker 5: You know, she went antiquing, she traveled the world. 190 00:12:02,542 --> 00:12:06,662 Speaker 4: I don't know, I can't explain it, but she did 191 00:12:06,902 --> 00:12:10,942 Speaker 4: have a tendency to kind of create her own misery 192 00:12:11,062 --> 00:12:14,142 Speaker 4: in a certain certain way. 193 00:12:14,902 --> 00:12:18,582 Speaker 1: But if DEA's life was that perfect, why did she 194 00:12:18,662 --> 00:12:22,462 Speaker 1: leave everything behind and moved to this remote mountain ranch. 195 00:12:23,462 --> 00:12:26,702 Speaker 1: Maybe her life looked perfect on the outside, but she 196 00:12:26,862 --> 00:12:33,542 Speaker 1: must have had her reasons for leaving Lahoya. Dea seemingly 197 00:12:33,622 --> 00:12:36,862 Speaker 1: had everything that she'd wanted as a child. She lived 198 00:12:36,862 --> 00:12:40,222 Speaker 1: in the glamorous seaside town, so beautiful that it's known 199 00:12:40,302 --> 00:12:43,702 Speaker 1: as San Diego's Jewel by the Sea, but she turned 200 00:12:43,702 --> 00:12:47,062 Speaker 1: her back on it for the craggy San Jacinto Mountains. 201 00:12:48,222 --> 00:12:52,102 Speaker 1: Clinton says she literally locked herself away from the world. 202 00:12:52,742 --> 00:12:55,502 Speaker 4: I would call her paranoid because I always told her that. 203 00:12:55,582 --> 00:12:58,342 Speaker 4: I said, you know, you came out here and we 204 00:12:58,422 --> 00:13:01,582 Speaker 4: built this beautiful mansion, and it's all of all of 205 00:13:01,582 --> 00:13:05,582 Speaker 4: these valuables, because she would have doors that locked from 206 00:13:05,662 --> 00:13:07,382 Speaker 4: the inside, so you had to have a key to 207 00:13:07,422 --> 00:13:10,822 Speaker 4: get out of the house. And so I would always 208 00:13:10,902 --> 00:13:14,142 Speaker 4: kind of say, you know, you have all these guns, 209 00:13:14,182 --> 00:13:18,582 Speaker 4: and it's kind of like you built yourself a little 210 00:13:18,622 --> 00:13:23,342 Speaker 4: bit of your own prison, like you're guarding, you know, 211 00:13:23,382 --> 00:13:25,462 Speaker 4: all these treasures up here in the mountains. 212 00:13:26,582 --> 00:13:30,582 Speaker 1: When I pieced together everyone's different versions of events. I 213 00:13:30,582 --> 00:13:34,902 Speaker 1: can see a pattern of estrangement, Dia distancing herself from 214 00:13:34,942 --> 00:13:38,222 Speaker 1: those closest to her and where her family was moving 215 00:13:38,262 --> 00:13:43,702 Speaker 1: out of the picture. These other characters, her Idol, Wild Crew, Diana, 216 00:13:44,222 --> 00:13:49,222 Speaker 1: and eventually Harper started moving in. That's after the break. 217 00:14:24,422 --> 00:14:27,982 Speaker 1: In October of twenty sixteen, when Dea was sixty two 218 00:14:28,062 --> 00:14:31,822 Speaker 1: years old, something happened that I think shows just how 219 00:14:31,902 --> 00:14:37,222 Speaker 1: isolated she felt. Dea needed major back surgery because she 220 00:14:37,262 --> 00:14:40,022 Speaker 1: suffered from lower back pain after falling off a horse 221 00:14:40,222 --> 00:14:44,342 Speaker 1: years ago. On the day of the procedure, Chrissara went 222 00:14:44,382 --> 00:14:49,102 Speaker 1: with her mother to Script's Memorial Hospital in La Joia. 223 00:14:52,822 --> 00:14:57,222 Speaker 1: Not only was the surgery intense, Dia struggled during her recovery. 224 00:14:58,142 --> 00:15:02,742 Speaker 1: The doctor's notes described Dea as crying, continuously lying on 225 00:15:02,782 --> 00:15:06,222 Speaker 1: her side and sobbing, and saying her pain was an 226 00:15:06,262 --> 00:15:10,742 Speaker 1: eighteen out of ten. The doctor recomoned seeing a psychologist 227 00:15:10,902 --> 00:15:14,822 Speaker 1: for depression. I've looked through the thousand plus pages of 228 00:15:14,862 --> 00:15:18,462 Speaker 1: Deer's medical records from that surgery and reading them was 229 00:15:18,502 --> 00:15:23,302 Speaker 1: pretty heartbreaking, the doctor wrote in his notes. Quote discuss 230 00:15:23,422 --> 00:15:27,782 Speaker 1: discharge plans and having adequate emotional support for her she says, 231 00:15:27,982 --> 00:15:32,862 Speaker 1: everybody in her family is too busy. I really feel 232 00:15:32,942 --> 00:15:36,422 Speaker 1: for Dear here, this woman who is in her sixties 233 00:15:36,662 --> 00:15:40,582 Speaker 1: with a family, feels that she is completely utterly alone 234 00:15:40,622 --> 00:15:44,502 Speaker 1: in the world. And it's also this precious moment where 235 00:15:44,502 --> 00:15:47,542 Speaker 1: I feel I can almost hear Dea in her own words. 236 00:15:49,062 --> 00:15:52,022 Speaker 1: Then there was this other thing that Deer says happened. 237 00:15:52,742 --> 00:15:56,342 Speaker 1: Oh wait, I should make that clear. Harper says that 238 00:15:56,382 --> 00:16:02,542 Speaker 1: Dear says happened. I know, it's confusing. Sometime after Dear 239 00:16:02,622 --> 00:16:05,622 Speaker 1: got out of surgery, Harper says, Dear told him this 240 00:16:05,742 --> 00:16:09,502 Speaker 1: story about Clinton coming to visit her in the hospital. 241 00:16:10,102 --> 00:16:13,342 Speaker 2: And she talked about how she was thirsty, and she 242 00:16:13,462 --> 00:16:20,022 Speaker 2: asked if he could get her something to drink. And 243 00:16:20,102 --> 00:16:22,342 Speaker 2: she said, you know, I was coming out of them, 244 00:16:23,382 --> 00:16:27,102 Speaker 2: of the drugs that they had given me, And she said, 245 00:16:27,182 --> 00:16:30,062 Speaker 2: you know, I was a little disoriented for a while, 246 00:16:30,182 --> 00:16:32,582 Speaker 2: but she said, you know, after I took the drink 247 00:16:32,662 --> 00:16:36,062 Speaker 2: and he gave me, I flipped into a very deep 248 00:16:36,182 --> 00:16:39,382 Speaker 2: coma and I was in that koma for nearly two 249 00:16:39,462 --> 00:16:41,902 Speaker 2: and a half days so far. He came out and 250 00:16:42,062 --> 00:16:45,342 Speaker 2: nearly died. They thought that they were going to lose 251 00:16:45,382 --> 00:16:49,182 Speaker 2: me and she said, I honestly believe that he administered 252 00:16:49,262 --> 00:16:54,662 Speaker 2: me some form drug that was intended to take my life. 253 00:16:57,262 --> 00:17:00,422 Speaker 1: Wow. And did she tell anybody else about that? 254 00:17:01,422 --> 00:17:02,982 Speaker 2: Oh? She told the doctor. 255 00:17:04,622 --> 00:17:07,422 Speaker 1: There was nothing in the medical records about this accusation, 256 00:17:08,262 --> 00:17:12,302 Speaker 1: but there was this note in her chart. Found her 257 00:17:12,462 --> 00:17:17,142 Speaker 1: unresponsive to name and stimuli, unable to wake up, called 258 00:17:17,422 --> 00:17:21,182 Speaker 1: nine one one, and sent to ED for further evaluation. 259 00:17:22,542 --> 00:17:25,182 Speaker 1: I had no luck tracking down dear's doctor to find 260 00:17:25,182 --> 00:17:28,182 Speaker 1: out more. I did ask Diana about the story, though. 261 00:17:29,422 --> 00:17:31,982 Speaker 1: Was she concerned that Clinton may have tried to poison 262 00:17:32,022 --> 00:17:33,302 Speaker 1: her while she was in hospital? 263 00:17:34,182 --> 00:17:38,742 Speaker 3: She was adamant that he did well, that he slipped 264 00:17:38,742 --> 00:17:41,942 Speaker 3: her something while she was there. 265 00:17:43,182 --> 00:17:47,702 Speaker 1: Of course I asked Clinton about this too, What is 266 00:17:47,702 --> 00:17:51,142 Speaker 1: your response to these accusations that you tried to poison 267 00:17:51,502 --> 00:17:53,422 Speaker 1: your mother when she was in hospital? 268 00:17:53,862 --> 00:17:56,542 Speaker 5: Just totally silly and not even worthy of. 269 00:17:56,502 --> 00:18:01,302 Speaker 1: A sad Clinton also disagreed with what Dea had told 270 00:18:01,302 --> 00:18:04,382 Speaker 1: her doctor, that everyone in her family was too busy 271 00:18:04,422 --> 00:18:04,702 Speaker 1: for her. 272 00:18:05,382 --> 00:18:10,222 Speaker 4: I think, unfortunately, she could be mellow, dramane. I don't 273 00:18:10,262 --> 00:18:13,142 Speaker 4: doubt that the doctor made the assessment that she was 274 00:18:14,382 --> 00:18:18,262 Speaker 4: depressed or sad, because I do feel that she had 275 00:18:18,302 --> 00:18:20,182 Speaker 4: some sort of mood disorder. 276 00:18:20,422 --> 00:18:20,942 Speaker 5: But no. 277 00:18:21,262 --> 00:18:23,342 Speaker 4: Both my sister and I am my father visit her 278 00:18:23,542 --> 00:18:26,742 Speaker 4: in the hospital multiple times, and we were always more 279 00:18:26,782 --> 00:18:28,022 Speaker 4: than willing to take care of her. 280 00:18:28,062 --> 00:18:30,702 Speaker 5: She seldom reached out. 281 00:18:30,902 --> 00:18:33,542 Speaker 4: I mean, she never asked me for help, or I 282 00:18:33,542 --> 00:18:35,542 Speaker 4: would have been happy to help her. 283 00:18:36,182 --> 00:18:40,102 Speaker 1: Regardless of what actually happened, the surgery seemed to be 284 00:18:40,222 --> 00:18:45,342 Speaker 1: a significant turning point in Dea and Clinton's relationship. Whether 285 00:18:45,382 --> 00:18:48,142 Speaker 1: she was growing apart from her kids or not, she 286 00:18:48,262 --> 00:18:55,622 Speaker 1: felt like she was. Dea was in a long period 287 00:18:55,662 --> 00:18:59,302 Speaker 1: of recovery from surgery for about two months after being discharged. 288 00:19:00,142 --> 00:19:03,742 Speaker 1: During that time, according to court records, she created her 289 00:19:03,822 --> 00:19:08,342 Speaker 1: own trust, separate from her husband's. In it, she put 290 00:19:08,382 --> 00:19:13,142 Speaker 1: all of her anti Peak's guns, jewelry, and property, including 291 00:19:13,302 --> 00:19:19,062 Speaker 1: the Bonita Vista ranch. Deer was the sole trustee, she 292 00:19:19,142 --> 00:19:24,382 Speaker 1: was in charge, she had control. In the trust agreement, 293 00:19:24,862 --> 00:19:29,422 Speaker 1: she had her attorney include this line trust her leaves 294 00:19:29,542 --> 00:19:34,702 Speaker 1: nothing but her love and affection to her son, Clinton Abrams. 295 00:19:37,022 --> 00:19:40,502 Speaker 1: In the event of Deer's death, Chris Sarah would become 296 00:19:40,582 --> 00:19:45,942 Speaker 1: trustee of the entire estate and inherit everything and that 297 00:19:46,022 --> 00:19:49,742 Speaker 1: might have been the end of it, except Dea wasn't 298 00:19:49,782 --> 00:19:55,462 Speaker 1: finished making changes to her trust more after the break, 299 00:20:15,542 --> 00:20:18,662 Speaker 1: although Dia and Clam were still legally married, they lived 300 00:20:18,702 --> 00:20:22,782 Speaker 1: their separate lives, and, according to Julie Stanford, Dea had 301 00:20:22,822 --> 00:20:24,142 Speaker 1: an active love life. 302 00:20:24,782 --> 00:20:26,822 Speaker 5: She liked cowboys that type. 303 00:20:27,502 --> 00:20:31,422 Speaker 7: Uh, they're mostly pretty boys, you know, and they were useless. 304 00:20:32,382 --> 00:20:35,902 Speaker 1: Julie is the third slice to the Dear Diana Julie Pie, 305 00:20:36,702 --> 00:20:39,942 Speaker 1: this tight knit trio who'd been such good friends before 306 00:20:39,982 --> 00:20:44,102 Speaker 1: Dia disappeared. Julie and Dea had known each other for years. 307 00:20:44,662 --> 00:20:46,782 Speaker 7: Basically, when I needed rescuing, she helped me. When she 308 00:20:46,822 --> 00:20:49,982 Speaker 7: didn't rescue me, that helped her, you know, that kind 309 00:20:49,982 --> 00:20:51,542 Speaker 7: of thing, that kind of good friendship. 310 00:20:52,262 --> 00:20:55,502 Speaker 1: Dea confided her love troubles to Julie. She didn't have 311 00:20:55,582 --> 00:20:57,582 Speaker 1: a lot of luck when it came to finding the 312 00:20:57,702 --> 00:20:58,182 Speaker 1: right guy. 313 00:20:58,782 --> 00:21:02,502 Speaker 7: She would dig guys that were online. And I told her, 314 00:21:02,622 --> 00:21:05,622 Speaker 7: I said, Dia, you did these guys. I said, don't 315 00:21:05,702 --> 00:21:06,542 Speaker 7: bring them here. 316 00:21:08,022 --> 00:21:08,222 Speaker 2: You know. 317 00:21:08,302 --> 00:21:10,662 Speaker 7: It's like, don't show these people you met online what 318 00:21:10,782 --> 00:21:11,142 Speaker 7: you have. 319 00:21:12,302 --> 00:21:16,302 Speaker 1: But that's exactly what Dea did. According to Harper, they 320 00:21:16,342 --> 00:21:19,342 Speaker 1: met some time in the spring of twenty sixteen on 321 00:21:19,422 --> 00:21:26,102 Speaker 1: a dating site called farmers only. Harper told me about 322 00:21:26,142 --> 00:21:28,782 Speaker 1: the first time they met face to face. He had 323 00:21:28,862 --> 00:21:32,902 Speaker 1: flown from Colorado to California after months of talking to 324 00:21:32,942 --> 00:21:33,742 Speaker 1: Dea online. 325 00:21:34,062 --> 00:21:37,902 Speaker 2: She picked me up at the airport. She had Ruby 326 00:21:38,222 --> 00:21:41,502 Speaker 2: in the back, her dog, and I looked at her 327 00:21:41,502 --> 00:21:44,542 Speaker 2: and she had hey in her and I said, boy, 328 00:21:44,622 --> 00:21:47,622 Speaker 2: you are kentry girl, aren't you? And she said, why 329 00:21:47,662 --> 00:21:49,862 Speaker 2: do you ask that? And I you got hey in 330 00:21:49,902 --> 00:21:53,422 Speaker 2: your hair and she laughed and said really, he said, 331 00:21:53,422 --> 00:21:55,982 Speaker 2: I fed the animals before I come, but I thought 332 00:21:56,062 --> 00:21:56,942 Speaker 2: I'd brushed my hair. 333 00:21:58,102 --> 00:22:03,502 Speaker 1: Harper says they spent four blissful days together horseback riding, hiking, 334 00:22:04,262 --> 00:22:08,102 Speaker 1: and then the adventure was over. Harper flew back home 335 00:22:08,182 --> 00:22:12,102 Speaker 1: to Colorado, but they kept in touch, and then he 336 00:22:12,182 --> 00:22:16,342 Speaker 1: decided to come back for another visit, and then another 337 00:22:17,142 --> 00:22:21,062 Speaker 1: until the end of twenty sixteen, a couple of months 338 00:22:21,102 --> 00:22:24,622 Speaker 1: after Deer's surgery. He says he just moved in for good. 339 00:22:28,062 --> 00:22:31,542 Speaker 2: You know, the ranch was pretty overgrow when I first 340 00:22:31,542 --> 00:22:34,422 Speaker 2: came in. You could hardly leave the cabin. But we 341 00:22:34,542 --> 00:22:38,622 Speaker 2: started behinding the place up because you know, her camp 342 00:22:38,742 --> 00:22:42,862 Speaker 2: was to use it as they airbnb, and it just 343 00:22:42,942 --> 00:22:44,662 Speaker 2: needed to work before it done. 344 00:22:45,662 --> 00:22:48,942 Speaker 1: Julie disputes the timeline when Harper moved in, saying it 345 00:22:48,982 --> 00:22:53,582 Speaker 1: was more like twenty eighteen. Regardless, when Julie finally met Harper, 346 00:22:53,982 --> 00:22:58,942 Speaker 1: she approved. Harper owns land and businesses in Arizona, New Mexico, 347 00:22:59,142 --> 00:23:02,542 Speaker 1: and Colorado. He's a soul of the earth kind of guy. 348 00:23:03,262 --> 00:23:06,382 Speaker 1: I like the pretty boys Deer usually went for. He 349 00:23:06,422 --> 00:23:07,582 Speaker 1: gets his hands dirty. 350 00:23:08,062 --> 00:23:10,022 Speaker 7: Harper he had a do thing, do you care things 351 00:23:10,062 --> 00:23:13,262 Speaker 7: work around the match, and that was something she needed 352 00:23:13,382 --> 00:23:15,102 Speaker 7: and someone to kind of lean on. 353 00:23:16,622 --> 00:23:20,302 Speaker 5: She was lonely, and that still that's void. 354 00:23:24,902 --> 00:23:28,382 Speaker 1: Harper and Deer had something else in common too. They 355 00:23:28,422 --> 00:23:32,822 Speaker 1: both loved money. There was one occasion when Julie and 356 00:23:32,862 --> 00:23:37,582 Speaker 1: Deer were showing Harper around Julie's place back then. Julie 357 00:23:37,622 --> 00:23:40,782 Speaker 1: lived in a trailer on a beautiful property that used 358 00:23:40,782 --> 00:23:41,782 Speaker 1: to be a cattle runch. 359 00:23:42,662 --> 00:23:44,502 Speaker 7: We were so on Harper the place, and we took 360 00:23:44,542 --> 00:23:47,662 Speaker 7: them down the road and looked, and he just saw 361 00:23:47,742 --> 00:23:50,462 Speaker 7: dollar signs. He said, well, this splace ought to be developed, 362 00:23:50,982 --> 00:23:54,622 Speaker 7: you know. So you know, he had the thing about money, money, 363 00:23:54,662 --> 00:23:55,582 Speaker 7: money all the time. 364 00:23:58,062 --> 00:24:00,942 Speaker 1: There's this stretch of time where I don't really know 365 00:24:01,022 --> 00:24:01,622 Speaker 1: what's going on. 366 00:24:01,702 --> 00:24:02,502 Speaker 2: Up there at the ranch. 367 00:24:03,502 --> 00:24:06,622 Speaker 1: Harper says that after he moved in, they just lived 368 00:24:06,622 --> 00:24:10,502 Speaker 1: their lives, traveling around the American Worth managing the ranch. 369 00:24:12,382 --> 00:24:20,022 Speaker 1: But then something happened that caused a domino effect of events. 370 00:24:20,702 --> 00:24:22,622 Speaker 1: DEA's husband, Clem died. 371 00:24:23,582 --> 00:24:28,382 Speaker 2: She died on December well, two thousand eight, keen, and 372 00:24:28,462 --> 00:24:33,342 Speaker 2: she said to me, you know, it's Independence Day. It's 373 00:24:33,382 --> 00:24:36,262 Speaker 2: the first day that I actually feel free. 374 00:24:36,942 --> 00:24:42,142 Speaker 1: On that very same day, on DEA's Independence Day, she 375 00:24:42,222 --> 00:24:45,542 Speaker 1: went back to that trust she created after her surgery, 376 00:24:45,982 --> 00:24:49,462 Speaker 1: and she revisited the part that left her entire estate 377 00:24:49,622 --> 00:24:56,702 Speaker 1: to her daughter. I've seen this document. I've seen how 378 00:24:56,782 --> 00:25:01,062 Speaker 1: over the name Chrissara Abrams. Dea scribbled four or five 379 00:25:01,182 --> 00:25:06,462 Speaker 1: lines in black ink. She wrote, denied, dated it twelve twelve, 380 00:25:06,542 --> 00:25:09,622 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and added her initials. 381 00:25:09,222 --> 00:25:09,782 Speaker 2: D A. 382 00:25:11,262 --> 00:25:15,062 Speaker 1: Few pages later next to that line, which said quote 383 00:25:15,422 --> 00:25:17,942 Speaker 1: trust her leaves nothing but her love and affection to 384 00:25:17,982 --> 00:25:22,742 Speaker 1: her son Clinton Abrams. Dia added in her own handwriting 385 00:25:23,582 --> 00:25:28,062 Speaker 1: and daughter Krissara Abrams. So at this point in time, 386 00:25:28,502 --> 00:25:32,062 Speaker 1: if Dea were to suddenly drop dead, her children would 387 00:25:32,102 --> 00:25:39,982 Speaker 1: get nothing. All these changes to DEA's trust reflect in 388 00:25:40,062 --> 00:25:45,822 Speaker 1: real time changes she wanted, unlike Will's Trust impact your 389 00:25:45,822 --> 00:25:49,662 Speaker 1: life immediately because they dictate how your assets are managed. 390 00:25:52,422 --> 00:25:56,502 Speaker 1: In that same crazy month, December of twenty eighteen, as 391 00:25:56,542 --> 00:26:00,102 Speaker 1: if enough hadn't happened already, Harper says he proposed to 392 00:26:00,142 --> 00:26:03,742 Speaker 1: dea up on a hill overlooking the ranch, on a 393 00:26:03,822 --> 00:26:04,542 Speaker 1: rock formation. 394 00:26:05,302 --> 00:26:08,502 Speaker 8: It was up to the butterfly rock. It's up by 395 00:26:08,502 --> 00:26:12,982 Speaker 8: the waterfl we would get married. The idea was that 396 00:26:12,982 --> 00:26:16,742 Speaker 8: it would be in Jackson, Oul, Wyoming, being. 397 00:26:17,702 --> 00:26:21,022 Speaker 5: There's a little church there. That's where we have identified it. 398 00:26:22,142 --> 00:26:25,542 Speaker 1: He says he gave her a gold engagement ring, but 399 00:26:25,662 --> 00:26:29,902 Speaker 1: Dian never told anyone they were engaged, at least nobody 400 00:26:29,942 --> 00:26:34,022 Speaker 1: I've spoken with, and Harper claims as a reason for that, 401 00:26:34,542 --> 00:26:37,582 Speaker 1: if Dia married Harper, she might lose out on the 402 00:26:37,622 --> 00:26:40,302 Speaker 1: financial support provided by Clem's estate. 403 00:26:40,982 --> 00:26:43,262 Speaker 8: When she brought it up to her attorneys, they said, 404 00:26:43,302 --> 00:26:47,582 Speaker 8: you're foolish idea, because he has written in there that 405 00:26:47,782 --> 00:26:52,422 Speaker 8: if you don't marry, you continue to give benefits. If 406 00:26:52,462 --> 00:26:56,742 Speaker 8: you marry, you would find yourself maybe out. 407 00:26:56,542 --> 00:27:00,342 Speaker 2: Of any recourse anything. 408 00:27:01,462 --> 00:27:03,862 Speaker 5: That's the reason we didn't look forward on it. 409 00:27:04,342 --> 00:27:05,862 Speaker 1: Oh, you weren't going to get married. 410 00:27:07,022 --> 00:27:11,222 Speaker 8: We decided not to get married advice of the attorney. 411 00:27:11,822 --> 00:27:16,382 Speaker 1: And here comes another domino. Remember there are two trusts 412 00:27:16,502 --> 00:27:21,862 Speaker 1: at play, DEA's and Clem's, and after Clem's death, Deer 413 00:27:21,982 --> 00:27:25,462 Speaker 1: doesn't just change her own trust, she takes another look 414 00:27:25,542 --> 00:27:34,262 Speaker 1: at Clem's. The entire time Deer lived in Idlewild, Clem 415 00:27:34,342 --> 00:27:37,462 Speaker 1: was paying the bills. When he was alive, he provided 416 00:27:37,542 --> 00:27:42,062 Speaker 1: for her, made sure she had everything she needed. But 417 00:27:42,222 --> 00:27:44,982 Speaker 1: now their children were left in charge of his trust 418 00:27:46,062 --> 00:27:49,422 Speaker 1: and in charge of how much money she was going 419 00:27:49,462 --> 00:27:52,742 Speaker 1: to get. So although Clem had provided for his wife 420 00:27:52,822 --> 00:27:56,142 Speaker 1: throughout his life, now that he was dead, the money 421 00:27:56,222 --> 00:27:58,702 Speaker 1: didn't seem like it was flowing in Deer's direction like 422 00:27:58,742 --> 00:28:02,822 Speaker 1: it once was. Here's a good example. A couple months 423 00:28:02,902 --> 00:28:07,422 Speaker 1: after Clem died, a once in a generation flood hit Idlewild. 424 00:28:08,142 --> 00:28:12,222 Speaker 1: Harper says it caused intense damage on the ranch, and it. 425 00:28:12,622 --> 00:28:15,582 Speaker 2: Took out the bridge, It took up the dam and 426 00:28:15,622 --> 00:28:19,942 Speaker 2: then left cavities everywhere. And when she had at Clinton 427 00:28:20,022 --> 00:28:24,982 Speaker 2: if he would help make the repairs, he refused. He said, 428 00:28:25,062 --> 00:28:27,542 Speaker 2: you know, if you're eating, that's all you need for 429 00:28:27,622 --> 00:28:28,102 Speaker 2: right down. 430 00:28:29,582 --> 00:28:33,542 Speaker 1: Harper also told me that in January twenty twenty, the 431 00:28:33,662 --> 00:28:37,422 Speaker 1: kids cut Deer off financially. Clinton says this wasn't the 432 00:28:37,462 --> 00:28:39,942 Speaker 1: case at all. He says that he sent his mother 433 00:28:40,102 --> 00:28:41,662 Speaker 1: plenty of money. 434 00:28:41,942 --> 00:28:44,582 Speaker 4: She was never cut off, not even for a second. 435 00:28:45,502 --> 00:28:48,622 Speaker 4: I didn't know about the flood. I don't recall being 436 00:28:48,662 --> 00:28:54,462 Speaker 4: asked to help. I do recall her discussing it as 437 00:28:54,582 --> 00:28:58,502 Speaker 4: a potential reason why she couldn't attend Clem's memorial. And 438 00:28:58,582 --> 00:29:01,542 Speaker 4: I said, you got to find a way. This is 439 00:29:01,582 --> 00:29:06,302 Speaker 4: your husband's and I'm throwing a nice service. That's about 440 00:29:06,342 --> 00:29:07,182 Speaker 4: really the extent. 441 00:29:07,862 --> 00:29:08,102 Speaker 5: You know. 442 00:29:08,582 --> 00:29:11,022 Speaker 4: They loved to try and make it sound as if 443 00:29:11,902 --> 00:29:14,182 Speaker 4: we were refusing her money or some such. 444 00:29:16,102 --> 00:29:18,422 Speaker 1: Did she make it to your dad's memorial? 445 00:29:19,062 --> 00:29:19,502 Speaker 5: She did. 446 00:29:19,702 --> 00:29:25,262 Speaker 1: Yeah, Again, we have these two opposing narratives. Whatever the 447 00:29:25,302 --> 00:29:27,942 Speaker 1: reality of how much money the kids were sending Dea, 448 00:29:28,862 --> 00:29:31,742 Speaker 1: we do know that she felt it wasn't anywhere near 449 00:29:31,782 --> 00:29:36,302 Speaker 1: what she deserved. To make things more complicated, there was 450 00:29:36,342 --> 00:29:39,262 Speaker 1: a change in tax law that affected the amount Dea 451 00:29:39,302 --> 00:29:44,182 Speaker 1: stood to gain from Clem's estate. So, as Clem's legal wife, 452 00:29:44,262 --> 00:29:46,702 Speaker 1: she was expecting to get around half of his estate 453 00:29:47,382 --> 00:29:52,262 Speaker 1: around five million dollars, but after the change, she could 454 00:29:52,262 --> 00:29:58,622 Speaker 1: potentially be left with nothing zero. So six months after 455 00:29:58,702 --> 00:30:02,862 Speaker 1: Clem died, Dea filed a lawsuit against her own children 456 00:30:03,542 --> 00:30:07,742 Speaker 1: to modify Clem's trust and invalidate that prenup she'd sign 457 00:30:07,782 --> 00:30:11,462 Speaker 1: with him all those years ago. Dea felt the prenut 458 00:30:11,502 --> 00:30:15,302 Speaker 1: was unfair and that she'd been pressured into it. She 459 00:30:15,462 --> 00:30:21,182 Speaker 1: wanted six point seven million dollars minimum. Dea and the 460 00:30:21,262 --> 00:30:24,822 Speaker 1: kids vollied objections and amendments back and forth through San 461 00:30:24,862 --> 00:30:28,982 Speaker 1: Diego Superior Court. The kids did not want to comply 462 00:30:29,142 --> 00:30:34,742 Speaker 1: with their mother's demands. Dea was stressed. She texted Diana 463 00:30:34,782 --> 00:30:38,382 Speaker 1: about it in April of twenty twenty. I'll tell you 464 00:30:38,502 --> 00:30:41,982 Speaker 1: everything that's going on with the kids, Dea texted, it's 465 00:30:42,022 --> 00:30:48,262 Speaker 1: anyone's worst nightmare. And Diana remembers another comment Dea made 466 00:30:48,542 --> 00:30:50,782 Speaker 1: again about the kids. 467 00:30:51,222 --> 00:30:54,022 Speaker 3: I had already been aware of the different things that 468 00:30:54,062 --> 00:30:58,742 Speaker 3: the kids were doing to make her life miserable with 469 00:30:59,102 --> 00:31:03,222 Speaker 3: the lawsuit, and she turned to me and she said, 470 00:31:03,782 --> 00:31:10,542 Speaker 3: if anything ever happens to me, Clinton did it. 471 00:31:16,822 --> 00:31:19,742 Speaker 1: So we're almost back to that June of twenty twenty, 472 00:31:20,382 --> 00:31:24,182 Speaker 1: back to the day when Deer disappeared. But there's one 473 00:31:24,382 --> 00:31:26,462 Speaker 1: other thing I've got to tell you. About before we 474 00:31:26,502 --> 00:31:31,782 Speaker 1: can close that loop of time, remember that Deer had 475 00:31:31,782 --> 00:31:36,022 Speaker 1: crossed Chrissara out of her trust and had very specifically 476 00:31:36,062 --> 00:31:40,462 Speaker 1: noted that Clinton would get nothing. Well, Dea made one 477 00:31:40,742 --> 00:31:49,022 Speaker 1: more major move. She changed her trust again. Dea named 478 00:31:49,222 --> 00:31:56,462 Speaker 1: a new beneficiary, Keith Leslie Harper, and as an alternate 479 00:31:56,502 --> 00:32:00,862 Speaker 1: trustee second in command if something happened to Harper was 480 00:32:00,942 --> 00:32:05,702 Speaker 1: Diana Feedder. This meant that if anything happened to Dea, 481 00:32:06,342 --> 00:32:10,062 Speaker 1: Harper would assume control of her trust benefit from her 482 00:32:10,422 --> 00:32:15,542 Speaker 1: entire estate, all her antiques, bank accounts, jewelry, and property 483 00:32:16,342 --> 00:32:21,862 Speaker 1: assets worth potentially millions of dollars. Two weeks after Dea 484 00:32:21,982 --> 00:32:32,302 Speaker 1: made this change to her trust, she disappeared. Coming up 485 00:32:32,422 --> 00:32:36,582 Speaker 1: on Where's Dear, There was. 486 00:32:36,702 --> 00:32:38,462 Speaker 5: A piece of paper that said that she feared for 487 00:32:38,462 --> 00:32:39,022 Speaker 5: her life. 488 00:32:39,382 --> 00:32:44,142 Speaker 3: He would constantly call me, constantly text me is the dead? 489 00:32:44,262 --> 00:32:45,142 Speaker 5: Is Dea alive? 490 00:32:45,942 --> 00:32:50,022 Speaker 2: She stays over and over over and over again to 491 00:32:50,142 --> 00:32:53,502 Speaker 2: me and others that if I disappear, and if my 492 00:32:53,622 --> 00:32:54,502 Speaker 2: son's doing. 493 00:33:12,142 --> 00:33:15,942 Speaker 1: Where's Dear is written and hosted by me Lucy Sheriff. 494 00:33:16,622 --> 00:33:22,142 Speaker 1: Our producer is Daphne Chen, editing by Karen Shakerji. 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